Review Blog Archives - The Contented Reader

A Series of Unfortunate Events is one of the series that turned me into a bookworm. I definitely had an obsession with these books back in elementary school. I figured they would be great books to highlight for Middle Grade Monday! The Bad Beginning introduces us to Violet, Klaus and Sunny. At the start, they find out that their parents have died…

This was a fantastic end to an epic sci-fi duology, and in my opinion, was definitely better than the first! Wildcard is the sequel to Warcross, which tells the story of Emika Chen who accidentally hacks into the opening ceremony of the Warcross championships. Because of this, she is quickly swept off to Tokyo to work for the creator of …

This book was high on my list of anticipated reads for this year. I was lucky enough to be sent an ARC of it from the publisher and I was so excited to read it. That said, this book did fall flat for me, overall. Let me first say that my absolute favourite thing about this book is the Danish…

It's the end of another month, and it's been a great reading month if I do say so myself! I've been in a contemporary mood and so I've definitely been reading a lot of those this month, and I think it's probably going to continue into July. Even though I'm reading a fantasy at the moment, I don't feel as…

Happy Monday, everyone! Today is my stop on the Blood Will Out blog tour along with Penguin Random House Canada and Penguin Teen Canada. A very special thanks for allowing me to join in on another tour! Today I have a review of Blood Will Out plus a mini Q&A that I did with Jo, the author. I'm very excited for…